Hey look like miniature bell peppers and come in a variety of colors, but do mot be fooled, these are a very powerful heat source.
They were pigeons, I saw, and attached with wire to their ankles were miniature silver bells.
(From Chandler: "She just stood and looked at me, a long, lean, hungry brunette, with rouged, thick black hair parted in the middle, a mouth made for three decker sandwiches, coral-and-gold pajamas, sandals -- and gilded toenails. Under her ear lobes a couple of miniature temple bells gonged lightly in the breeze").
Along with this improvement, clocks were constructed more elegantly in this period, with hours marked by gongs, doors opening to miniature figurines, bells, or moving mechanisms.
The bankside verge was carpeted with an uncountable variety of wildflowers, taking advantage of the short Arctic summer and constant daylight: Globe flowers like small yellow peonies, lacy Labrador tea, and the miniature purple bell shapes of the lovely if unattractively named goat vetch.
Since they left the Americas, pumpkins have been cultivated worldwide in a range of formats, from a smooth, tennis ball-size miniature to a bell-shaped behemoth with rhinoceros skin.
Lewis Gibson's evocative soundscape, played out on tinkling bells, toy piano and miniature drum kit, also has them mesmerised.
From her pierced fawnskin ears dangled miniature earbobs, hawk's bells so unusually small that they could have hung from the throats of warblers.
Another group of figures -- three musicians accompanied by complete miniature sets of bronze bells and stone chimes -- is part of a wonderful show of tomb sculpture at J. J. Lally.
"Our first successful prop was a miniature toilet bowl," Mr. Bell said.
It is stunning to hear the final juxtaposition, when Mr. Wosner moves from the agitated, tumultuous Capriccio in D minor, which ends the Brahms set, to the last Schoenberg miniature, a series of bell-like, pungently atonal chords played almost at a whisper, a piece Schoenberg wrote in 1911 after attending Mahler's funeral.
